At the April District 5 meeting, KAC member, April Pameticky, will be presenting, "Letting Poetry Inform Your Prose." How could the poetic lens inform your writing? Are there ways of training the ear and eye to better turn a narrative line? Sonya Chung, teacher and blogger, writes “Fiction is a Trudge, Poetry is a Dance” and that good literary fiction is “language-rich, language-precise, language-driven.” Is she right? We’ll explore some common poetry techniques that translate well into a variety of written forms, including memoir and long-form fiction. We’ll also discuss the current poetry market and ways in which poetry can be shared with a wider audience. Bring your writing tools and be ready for inspiration.
April Pameticky received her MFA in Fiction in 2006 and turned her creative energy to teaching public school. She began writing and exploring poetry in 2008. In the spring of 2017, she launched River City Poetry, an online poetry journal. In October, she showcased the Wichita Broadside Project, an art/poetry collaboration in Wichita that premiered 15 posters at Harvester Arts for distribution around the city. Her work can be seen in Chiron Review and Epiphany. April was the Summer 2015 Featured Summer Poet for Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. Her chapbooks, Sand River [Finishing Line Press] and Anatomy of a Sea Star [Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press] are available upon request.
This meeting is free and open to the public.
When: Saturday, April 14, at 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Where: Larksfield Place, 7373 E. 29th St. N., Wichita KS (just west of Rock Rd. on the south side of 29th Street).
Park in the Visitors lot and enter the Welcome Entrance walking left through the main dining room to the Lakeview Dining Room.
April Pameticky received her MFA in Fiction in 2006 and turned her creative energy to teaching public school. She began writing and exploring poetry in 2008. In the spring of 2017, she launched River City Poetry, an online poetry journal. In October, she showcased the Wichita Broadside Project, an art/poetry collaboration in Wichita that premiered 15 posters at Harvester Arts for distribution around the city. Her work can be seen in Chiron Review and Epiphany. April was the Summer 2015 Featured Summer Poet for Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. Her chapbooks, Sand River [Finishing Line Press] and Anatomy of a Sea Star [Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press] are available upon request.
This meeting is free and open to the public.
When: Saturday, April 14, at 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Where: Larksfield Place, 7373 E. 29th St. N., Wichita KS (just west of Rock Rd. on the south side of 29th Street).
Park in the Visitors lot and enter the Welcome Entrance walking left through the main dining room to the Lakeview Dining Room.